"Ted Mittelstaedt" > wrote in message
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Brevity snips........

> I wonder if this is all a plot at Jarden to get us to move to those
> super expensive "Ball Collection Elite Platinum" lids that are just
> plain steel with a poly coat, no color anodization. It's the old story
> of introduce a cheaper replacement product, label it with a more
> expensive-sounding name, then make the existing product cruddier
> and cruddier over the following years so that it becomes unusable and
> you have to go to the more expensive product that gives you less.
>

I agree with all you said. Before I switch to the more expensive "Platinum"
lids I'll give up canning. I too can't understand why others don't produce
jars and lids for canners. Maybe they see canning as a dying art with no
future in it for them. Start-up costs are high and they wont take the
chance.